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A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789 by Edward C. Papenfuse, et. al.
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HAY BIOGRAPHIES

an additional 2,120 acres in Somerset and Talbot
counties (at least 1,706 acres inherited from his
wife's brother, ca. 1764) 1763-1789; transferred by
deeds of gift at least 1,915 acres in Talbot County
to his sons and nephew, 1782-1789; sold at least
838 acres in Talbot and Somerset counties, 1763-
1789. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will probated on
March 21, 1791, in Talbot County. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: TEV, at least £3,781.11.10 current
money (including 59 slaves, 139 law books, and
ca. 49 other books). LAND: ca. 1,500 acres in Som-
erset and Talbot counties, plus he mentioned in
his will unspecified acreage in Worcester County
and on the Western Shore, 1789.

HAYWARD, WILLIAM, JR. (ca. 1758-1834)
BORN: ca. 1758. RESIDED: near the Miles River
Ferry and Easton, Talbot County. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. UNCLE: William Hayward (?-1791).
BROTHER: Thomas (?-ca. 1811), of Baltimore City,
a mariner, who married Anne and was lost at sea.
SISTERS: Elizabeth, of Somerset County; Augusta,
of Somerset County. MARRIED first, between 1783
and 1787 Henrietta Maria (?-1804), daughter of
James Lloyd Chamberlaine (1732-1783); grand-
daughter of both George Robins (1697-1742) and
Samuel Chamberlaine (1698-1773); stepgrand-
daughter of William Goldsborough (1709-1760);
niece of Samuel Chamberlaine (1742-1811), Anne
Chamberlaine (1734-1786), who married Richard
Tilghman Earle (1728/29-1788), Anna Maria Ro-
bins (1732-1806), who married Henry Hollyday
(ca. 1725-1789), and Margaret Robins (1734-
1808), who married William Hayward (?-1791).
Her brothers were Samuel (?-1784); Robins (?-by
1773); and Robins (1773-1808). Her sister was
Margaret. Her first cousins were James Hollyday
(1758-1807); Samuel Earle (11 56-1790)- Henrietta
Maria Hollyday (1750-1832), who married Sam-
uel Chamberlaine (1742-1811); Anna Maria Hol-
lyday (1756-1817), who married George Gale
(1756-1815); and Rebecca Hollyday (1762-by
1830), who married Nicholas Hammond (1758-
1830). MARRIED second, by 1810 Henrietta Maria
(?-1822), daughter of James Lloyd (1716/17-
1768), of Parson's Landing, Talbot County, a
mariner, and wife Elizabeth Frisby (1729-?); step-
daughter of Elizabeth Ward; granddaughter of
both James Lloyd (1679/80-1723) and Peregrine
Frisby (1688-1739); niece of Robert Lloyd (ca.
1712-1770), Henrietta Maria Lloyd (ca. 1711-
1748), who married Samuel Chamberlaine (1698-
1773), Margaret Lloyd (1714-ca. 1785), who mar-
ried William Tilghman (1711-1782), Ann Lloyd
(ca. 1723-1794), who married Matthew Tilghman

(1717/18-1790), and Ann Frisby (1727-1793),
who married second, William Fitzhugh (ca. 1722-
1798). Her brothers were James (?-1815), a cap-
tain in the Fourth Battalion of Maryland Militia
during the Revolution, who married Sarah, daugh-
ter of Thomas Martin; Peregrine; Robert, Gent.
(?-1784), of Talbot County, a physician; Phile-
mon, Gent. (?-1827), of Queen Anne's County by
1796 and of Cecil County at death; Frisby, Gent.,
of Cecil County by 1796; and Nicholas. Her sisters
were Ann; Elizabeth (?-1813), of Talbot County;
and Deborah. Her first cousins were Deborah
Lloyd, who married Peregrine Tilghman (ca.
1741-1807); James Lloyd Chamberlaine (1732-
1783); Samuel Chamberlaine (1742-1811); Anne
Chamberlaine (1734-1786), who married Richard
Tilghman Earle (1728/29-1788); Richard Tilgh-
man (1740-1809); Margaret Tilghman (1742-
1817), who married Charles Carroll, Barrister
(1723-1783); William Fitzhugh, Jr. (1761-1839);
Elizabeth Rousby, who married George Plater
(1735-1792); Peregrine Tilghman (ca. 1741-1807);
and James Tilghman (1743-1809). CHILDREN.
SONS: William (1787-1836), of Easton, Talbot
County, a lawyer, who was a member of the
Maryland House of Delegates from 1818 to 1820
and was elected to the U.S. Congress as a Demo-
cratic representative for the 1825 session, who
married in 1809 Elizabeth Haskins Bullitt, of Eas-
ton, Talbot County; and James Chamberlaine (?-
ca. 1832), who never married. DAUGHTERS: Hen-
rietta Maria, who never married; Sarah (?-1821),
who never married and died of consumption. PRI-
VATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican, St. Michael's Parish, Tal-
bot County. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: in 1805 he
was elected vice president of the newly formed
Agricultural Society that met at Easton, Talbot
County, to promote new methods of crop rotation
and fertilization. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: attor-
ney at law; planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Lower House, Talbot County, 1787-
1788; Senate, Eastern Shore, Term of 1801-1806:
1801, 1802, 1803 (did not serve), 1804, 1805. LO-
CAL OFFICES: St. Michael's Parish Vestry, Talbot
County, elected 1790, 1797, 1822, 1827, 1830,
1831, 1833, 1834, and 1835; associate justice, Tal-
bot County, in office 1798; Commission to divide
Talbot County into election districts, appointed
1800; trustee, Easton Academy, Talbot County, in
office 1800; judge of elections, First District, Tal-
bot County, in office 1800; Maryland Senate elec-
tor, Talbot County, 1821. MILITARY SERVICE, col-
onel, by 1804. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: 28 slaves, 1790; assessed

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